yfelとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Proto-West Germanic *ubil, from Proto-Germanic *ubilaz.

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈy.fel/, [ˈy.vel]

形容詞

yfel (比較級 wiersa, 最上級 wierrest)

1. bad
2. bad in a moral sense, evil

使用する際の注意点

• Yfel was the general word for “bad,” not just “evil.” Hence phrases such as yfel ġesihþ (“bad eyesight”), yfel hlyst (“bad hearing”), yfel wyrd (“bad fortune”), and yfel bȳsn (“bad example”).

語形変化

派生した語

• Middle English: yvel, uvel, evel
  • English: evil
  • Scots: evil, ewil

名詞

yfel n

1. something bad or bad things collectively; harm, misfortune
2. evil

語形変化

同意語

• (adjective): un-

反意語

• gōd (“good”)

派生語

• yfele (“badly”)
• yfelian (“to wrong”)
• yfelsacian (“to blaspheme”)
• yfelwillende (“malicious”)

派生した語

• Middle English: yvel, uvel, evel
  • English: evil
  • Scots: evil, ewil

接頭辞

yfel-

1. denotes wickedness, inequity, wrong-doing, wrong (compare English mal-, ill-)

   yfeldēma "wicked judge"

   yfelcweþan "to speak evil of, slander, curse, revile, abuse verbally"

   yfelonbecweþende "influencing or persuading to do evil"

   yfelsacian "to blaspheme"

   yfelġeornes "malice"

2. denotes of magic, witchcraft or the occult

   yfelweorc "work of magic, witchcraft, evil deed"